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A Dynamical Model for Activating and Silencing the Mitotic Checkpoint.
Scientific reports - 20 Jun 2017
Henze Richard, Dittrich Peter, Ibrahim Bashar
Abstract excerpt
The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism, exclusively sensitive to the states of kinetochores attached to microtubules. During metaphase, the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is inhibited by the SAC but it rapidly switches to its active form following proper attachment of the final spindle. It had been thought that APC/C activity is an all-or-nothing response, but...
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